There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures of black boys." They're not really thinking about, like, what the whole thing is.

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.

People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to be able to meet such a broad cross-section of New York and increasingly the world, and to get a feel of how people respond to visual culture.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.